This Week in Work

August 30, 2012 at 8:58 PM by Fatima

Welcome to This Week in Work, a compendium of recent stories on hiring, human resources, company culture, and our professional lives.

Lewis Hine, 1920, 'Work' seriesERE.net
Good Grief, Charles Brown. They Never Told You if You Got the Job?
How not to treat candidates

Fast Company
37signals earns millions each year. Its CEO’s model? His cleaning lady
Jason Fried offers contrarian advice

What successful people do with the first hour of their workday
It doesn't involve email

Pando Daily
The Acqui-hire Scourge: Whatever Happened to Failure in Silicon Valley?
The problem with hiring by acquiring

Forbes
The two things to ask before adding anyone to your team
One question for you, one for your candidates

The art of hiring: three secrets from America's most promising companies
Alan Martin, Eric Stromberg, and Christopher Irion discuss

The Workplace
Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?
Thread from The Workplace, a new site from StackExchange

TechCrunch
Tech Jobs Have Grown By A Third In San Francisco Since The Start Of 2012
From 31,00 to 44,000, according to the city

The Entelo Blog
Webinar: Everything You Wanted to Know About GitHub, Quora and More but Were Afraid to Ask
Entelo's CEO offers practical tips

AVC
Foursquare’s approach to Recruiting & HR
Susan Loh on combining recruiting and HR

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